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Old 11-13-2015, 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by the 'stache View Post
Nine people didn't vote for Hank Aaron. He played 3,298 games, had 755 home runs, and another 3,000 hits on top of the home runs. He drove in 2,297 runs, had 6,856 bases...an average of 337 bases per 162 games played for a quarter century.

Nine people thought he didn't earn induction on the first ballot.
There was still a lot of racism at the time .
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